melannen | I told you so in May

(updating from the wilds. that is, mum and pop's msn connection.)

So I guess I've become the victim of my first ever surprise birthday party. Well, I told them I didn't want to do much this year. So I got dinner with family and suchlike, BOOKS! (whee!) and went to a movie afterward. Oh, and a birthday cake with a Snitch on it. And, apparently, special Zonko's brand magical un-blow-outable sparking candles! (Mom swore up and down there were no trick candles on the cake this year. Uh huh, sure. Fred! George!)

Have saved the Snitch; will devour it later.

The movie was X2. : Was amazingly good. Really. I had to look away the fight scene between Wolverine and Knuckle-girl.

Second: The dam is about to burst. Vast amount of water which are moving which you would rather stayed still. That is, froze. *You have somebody with power over ice.* So what to you do? Ignore him.

Third: Am convinced Professor X is evil. All the signs are there. Building a private army of fanatical soldiers, megalomaniacally named after him. Uses his powers haphazardly with no regard for ethics or the ideology he supposedly espouses. Lies to his allies. Has built a machine capable of killing everyone on the planet, which only he can operate. I'm sure there's more.

Fourth: #3 may, *may* have to do with my unhealthy admiration for Magneto. I liked him in the first movie, but now. . .:shivers: The scene where he was escaping is *sexiest thing ever*. Next to the scene in the computer, that is.

Fifth: The best character in the entire movie was the cat. Licking Wolverine's claws: /me melts. Am tempted to write fic in which Wolverine gets a kitten. Perhaps he could name it Lily? ;)

Sixth: I will have to read some actual x-men comics soon. Meanwhile, I am off to console myself with To Ride Pegasus. Or possibly The Once and Future King.

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Knuckle girl was Lady DeathStryke. I explained a reason why Iceman could not stop the water to Tim. First, factor in his age. Second, you notice he only shot out a blast of cold from his hand once, and it wasn't that huge a blast. Not to mention whenever he'd freeze things, like the tea/coffee, or creating that wall of ice, he had to be touching it...somehow I don't think he'd want to be touching that wall of water coming at them.

he could have jumped out next to Jean while she was keeping the water back.

Did you miss the whole, when she went out, she sealed the jet, preventing the stairs from lowering, and keeping everyone inside while lifting it?

I mean sure, if they had blasted a whole in the jet, they could have let Iceman out.. but somehow I think that would defeat Jean's sacrifice.

yep, missed that. what kind of stupidly-designed jet lets you lock people inside?

The lock is probably mainly to keep it from opening in flight. And I bet Jean was blanketing the jet in a skin tight telekinetic field (i.e. they could not open it even if they wanted to)

I am factoring in his age. And the fact that Pyro was able blast fire all over the place with seemingly very little effort and he could generate that thick ice wall *from thin air* in seconds. (And I didn't notice that he had to touch the wall of ice.)

And it's true it might have been hard for him to stop it while Jean was busy being all self-sacrificing. Maybe they should have asked him to help *before the dam broke,* instead of ignoring him just because he was a kid.

*smile* Not all mutants are created equal. And you'll note Pyro did not make the fire, just manipulated it.

Iceman probably just turned the mosture in the air to ice, but he was standing next to Rogue at the secret passage, with his hand on the wall, and you could see the frost around it, moving forward towards the wall he had made.

Turning the moisture in the air into ice does not get you a thick, solid wall. It gets you *snow*. And probably not much snow, at that, especially in winter.
Ah, so he wasn't actually touching the ice wall, he was touching the *stone* wall. So he could have stood on dry ground and sent frost along it to where the water was.

Actually that was a wooden wall, not to mention what else was in it. And again that was a small wall in a coridor as opposed to a huge field of racing water. You just aren't gonna let me win this, are you darling?

^_^ nopers.

The point is, even if it wouldn't have worked, they should have at least suggested it. You could have had a nice angsty moment where he tried and failed.

THey dinna have a whole lot time to suggest it. Besides Jean had to dig the Blackbird out of the snow as well, what I don't get is when she got it out and was holding the water back, why not just float up and get in.

Did you say something about hose funny re-lighting candles? Those things are awesome! (and yes, I *AM* easily amused)

I think they covered the self-naming thing in one of the comics. He said the X stood for a sort of "extra" potential they have. Besides the fact that sounds a bit pretentious, I'm fairly certain that it was just a cover, though.

Actually, now that I think of it, the "extra potential" thing makes him sound more like Magneto anyway... Scary.

Also, I was asking about those candles, not hose candles. Hosing the candles might ruin the cake, which would not be a good thing...

See? he is evil!

Those candles are fun enough. But they have been used every birthday since Mom discovered them when I was about five. I have never gotten my birthday with. *grin*.

And she *swore* she didn't use them this time, apparently they're infecting the normal candles.

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